Dominique Plamondon
Déni, 2023
Porcelain, glaze
Dimensions: 5''x 3'' x 13''

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A spray bottle model, an ordinary yet central instrument of industrial agriculture, is reproduced here in three copies, as one would duplicate a weapon. Modeled, 3D-printed, cast, and engraved using technologies born of the very productivist logics it critiques, this form becomes a symptom of a system founded on the poisoning of living beings and the denial of all ecological interdependence.

The bottle is deliberately sabotaged: its nozzle, diverted from its intended target, is turned toward the user. This inversion forces a confrontation with a truth that is systematically concealed, pesticides never remain confined to the field. They contaminate bodies, soils, water, and air, and inevitably return to those who produce, handle, and tolerate them. Each bottle is marked with pictograms designating three so-called agricultural scourges: weeds, fungal diseases, and so-called pest insects. These icons expose the warlike rhetoric that structures chemical agriculture, in which any recalcitrant form of life is exterminated and sacrificed in the name of yield.
The white glaze, intentionally unstable and reticulated, evokes burned, dissolved plastic, eaten away from within by the substances it contains. This degradation embodies the slow, programmed destruction of ecosystems, the erosion of human bodies, and the collapse of an agricultural model built on violence, domination, and the illusion of total control over life.